Wet winter, nothing new, the Environment Agency (EA) climate change experts and the media are wringing their hands in despair begging for millions off the government to build taller concrete barriers to protect the residential properties.
Their latest brilliant idea is to pay farmers to block drains and ditches to hold water on their land and get beavers back to building dams.
Well I’ve got news for you.
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There are now hundreds of acres in the Severn Valley covered in tarmac and concrete, houses and industrial estates.
The land can only hold so much when it gets saturated then it’s down to the river.
Let’s look in the dictionary what the meaning is of the word river.
Surprise, surprise it’s a channel to carry water to the sea.
Well we don’t need beavers because the EA wear fur coats and their policy of total neglect over the last 30 years has done a good job of blocking our rivers with trees and silt.
Our two dams are always running over before the winter storms, so no benefit from them.
I understand the EA took advice from financial experts and sold their maintenance equipment, smart move.
Now you reap what you sow.
Winters are getting wetter I agree the, so the quicker the water gets to the Bristol Channel, the sooner the floods will subside. As Sergei would say - simples.
More rants and views from the old realist.
Emyr Wigley
Llansantffraid
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